Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Increase To 315,000 [CHARTS]

Initial jobless claims for the week ending September 6 were a seasonally adjusted 315k, up from the prior week’s revised reading of 304k. Not seasonally adjusted, jobless claims for the week were 234k.The 4-week moving average of initial jobless claims is 304k.

The insured unemployment rate was 1.9%, unchanged from the week prior.

The number of unemployment insurance recipients, or continuing claims, for regular state programs was 2.487 million, up from the previous week’s revised reading of 2.478 million.

Individual states that had changes in claims of more than 1k (not seasonally adjusted):